re: (meteorobs) Re: Meteor Shower Question

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Subject: re: (meteorobs) Re: Meteor Shower Question
From: wayne.t.hally@bangate1.TEK.COM
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 97 6:32:56 EDT
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There was a report in a 1995 WGN issue on the subject of a Hale-Bopp metor 
shower being very unlikely.
I'll try and remember to bring it in tomorrow so I can quote some facts.
Some showers do in fact occur at this orbit to orbit distance, such as 
May's eta-Aquarids (0.15 AU), but this is an older mature shower (possibly 
20,000 years), and Halley's comet's 76 year orbit has ensured that comet 
dust is all along the orbit...and it's great age has helped spread the 
material out from the original orbital path into a wider area.
	BTW, the other shower that no-one has named in January is the 
Quadrantids, peaking with ZHR's over 100/Hr on January 3rd for a very few 
hours. It is derived from Comet 96P /Machholz 1.
	With rates like that, it would be very difficult to detect any 
activity from another minor shower.
	Not to mention all the frozen Brass monkeys :->

Wayne